From a knocked down broom closet to more than 3,000 restaurants worldwide.

Today, you have the chance to bid on a 1971 Camaro Z28 "Johnny Lightning" model car autographed by Papa John's Founder & CEO, John Schnatter and a Papa John's Camaro Hat.

As a high school student working at a local pizza pub in Jeffersonville, Indiana, Papa John's founder John Schnatter's dream was to one day open a pizza restaurant that would deliver a superior-quality traditional pizza.

In 1983, "Papa" John Schnatter delivered his last campus pizza, picked up his business degree from Ball State University, and went back to Jeffersonville, Indiana. There, at age 22, he knocked down the broom closet in his father's tavern (Mick's Lounge), sold his prized 1971 Z28 Camaro, purchased $1,600 worth of used restaurant equipment, and began delivering pizzas out of the back of the bar.

The rest is history.